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Registration of businesses in the food sector

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In order to guarantee the compliance of foodstuffs with national and European legislation and to allow the efficient organisation of official controls of food establishments, all operators in the food sector must be known by the competent authorities.

For this to happen, food business operators must notify the activities of food establishments under their responsibility to the Commissariat for Food Safety (Commissariat alimentaire).

They shall notify the name of the establishment (e.g. name of the restaurant, name of the day care centre - "maison relais", name of the point of sale, etc.) and the address where the activities take place.

The indication of the address of a fiduciary which is hosting the registered office is not permitted.

Moreover, they need to appoint individual persons who must ensure that the food establishments comply with food law. These individual persons will be the recipients of official control reports and the main contact point in the event of rapid safety alerts or other incidents concerning food products.

Who is concerned

Each business or establishment (public or private, for profit or non-profit) active in the production, transformation or distribution must be registered with the Commissariat for Food Safety.

As a general rule, the activities listed concern all the businesses who are active in any of the steps related to the production, transformation and distribution of foodstuffs (except for slaughterhouses or businesses active in the feed sector who are subject to other types of registration).

Example: grocery shops, restaurants, crèches, businesses in the packaging sector or active in the export or import of foodstuffs, etc.

How to proceed

Registration procedure

Applicants are required to submit an online application for registration via MyGuichet.lu:

either by using the procedure with LuxTrust authentication;

or by using the procedure without LuxTrust authentication.

Within 15 working days, the operator will receive:

either an acknowledgement of receipt as proof of registration;

or a letter requiring the operator to modify his application for registration.

The operator may commence operation as soon as the application has been mailed; it is not necessary to wait for the acknowledgement of receipt or the letter requesting a modification.

Notification of modification or of cessation of activity

Any modification or cessation of activity must be notified by the business operator to the Commissariat for Food Safety via the online registration procedure on MyGuichet.lu:

Forms / Online services

To complete your application, the information about you collected from this form needs to be processed by the public administration concerned.

That information is kept by the administration in question for as long as it is required to achieve the purpose of the processing operation(s).

Your data will be shared with other public administrations that are necessary for the processing of your application. For details on which departments will have access to the data on this form, please contact the public administration you are filing your application with.

Under the terms of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, you have the right to access, rectify or, where applicable, remove any information relating to you. You are also entitled to withdraw your consent at any time.

Additionally, unless the processing of your personal data is compulsory, you may, with legitimate reasons, oppose the processing of such data.

If you wish to exercise these rights and/or obtain a record of the information held about you, please contact the administration in question using the contact details provided on the form. You are also entitled to file a claim with the National Commission for Data Protection (Commission nationale pour la protection des données), headquartered at 1, Avenue du Rock'n'Roll, L-4361 Esch-sur-Alzette.

By submitting your application, you agree that your personal data may be processed as part of the application process.